Sr. Technical Sourcer

Perplexity; California (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity AI is seeking a Technical Sourcer to help build a scalable talent foundation for rapid growth in AI and engineering disciplines. You will partner with recruiters, hiring managers, and engineers to identify, engage, and inspire world-class talent using creative outreach and AI-assisted automation.

The role emphasizes building tools and workflows to automate repetitive work, while providing an authentic story about our mission, product, and team culture.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to identify and engage top technical talent across multiple disciplines.
• Comfortable navigating complex technical conversations and software/AI roles.
• Experience in dynamic, fast-paced environments with shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Research, identify, and engage engineering and technical talent across disciplines and levels.
• Collaborate with recruiters to understand requirements and calibrate candidate profiles.
• Use diverse strategies including AI-assisted automation to build strong candidate pipelines.
• Develop and refine tooling/workflows to automate repetitive tasks and increase efficiency.
• Act as the first Perplexity AI representation to candidates, conveying vision and culture.

Skills

Technical literacy

Sourcing experience

AI tooling

Job description

At Perplexity AI, we are building products that push the boundaries of how people find, reason, and learn information. The scale and speed of our mission demand a team that thrives in environments of rapid iteration and constant discovery. As a Technical Sourcer, you will be at the forefront of shaping the talent foundation that fuels our growth.

This is not a traditional sourcing role. We are looking for a builder with strong technical grounding, a genuine passion for the craft of sourcing, and the ability to operate with creativity and precision in an environment where constant change and ambiguity is the norm. You will partner closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and engineers to identify, engage, and inspire world-class talent, helping build a team capable of solving some of the most challenging problems in AI today. Just as importantly, you will use AI to automate and augment your own workflow, treating sourcing as a system to be engineered rather than a set of manual tasks.

What You'll Do

• Research, identify, and engage engineering and technical talent across multiple disciplines and experience levels

• Collaborate with recruiters and hiring teams to deeply understand technical requirements and calibrate profiles with accuracy and nuance

• Use a wide range of sourcing strategies, including advanced research, talent mapping, referrals, AI-assisted automation, and creative outreach, to build strong candidate pipelines.

• Build and refine your own tooling and workflows, leveraging AI to automate repetitive work and spend more of your time on high-judgment sourcing

• Act as a candidate's first introduction to Perplexity AI, delivering an authentic and compelling story about our mission, product, and team culture

• Track and analyze pipeline data to drive continuous optimization and improvements in sourcing approaches

• Operate with agility, adapting quickly to shifting priorities, hard-to-fill roles, and changing team needs

What You Bring

• A strong desire to grow a career in sourcing, with clear dedication to advancing your craft and developing deep expertise in the field

• Exceptional technical literacy, comfortable navigating complex technical conversations, parsing nuanced skill sets, and understanding the architecture of software and AI roles

• Proven experience sourcing talent in highly dynamic and fast-paced environments where priorities shift and ambiguity is constant

• A builder's instinct for AI: eager to adopt new tools, automate your own workflow, and experiment with how AI can make sourcing faster and sharper

• Creativity and resilience: the ability to design novel sourcing strategies, test new methods, and adapt quickly when faced with challenges

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build trust and develop relationships with both candidates and internal partner teams

• A mindset that thrives on curiosity, iteration, and impact, aligned with Perplexity AI's ethos of building what has never been built before